Betty News & Updates
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November 12, 2009
The date for KU's home tournament has been announced. The 29th annual Fools Fest will be held April 3 & 4 here in Lawrence, KS. More information to come!! November 9, 2009 It’s been a while since our last update (sorry!) and we have changed and grown quite a bit. Here’s a rundown... Nationals As our last post said, the Bettys finished a few spots out at Regionals so we did not take a team to Nationals—someday soon we hope! But in the meantime, we did have handful of Bettys travel to Ohio to support the KU men’s team (the Horrorzontals) as well as watch the high-level women’s ultimate all weekend long. It was an awesome trip for those who attended. Check out the following link to see the results from the weekend, photos, and more: http://college2009.upa.org/ Summer 2009 Like every summer, some Bettys stayed in Lawrence, some traveled the world, some went home… Slightly different from past summers, more Bettys played Club ultimate than in the past. While there were still no women’s teams in the KC area, a few of us played on mixed teams. Four current Bettys and one Betty alum played for KC’s mixed team, Threat Level Midnight. Another Betty played for a club team in her hometown for some of their summer tourneys. As more and more Bettys play club, we hope that they will bring that knowledge and intensity back to the girls in Lawrence to keep building our club. For the Bettys that stayed in Lawrence, Lawrence summer league was a great opportunity to keep playing with other ultimate members in the community. Congrats to the yellow team for their resounding tournament victory. Fall 2009 The Bettys were busy this fall to say the least. Our new captains and officers made a big push in recruiting and it paid off with dozens of new women turning up to practice to see what we’re all about. The new group of Bettys are awesome both on and off the field, and we are excited to have such a large number of new girls to teach the game too! With such large numbers, we were able to take two teams to our first two tournaments. Our first tournament was the Manhattan Project in Manhattan, KS. We spilt our teams X/Y and had a really good learning weekend with each team getting 5 games and a 6th against the opposite Betty team. Our second tournament was Harvest Moon in Fayetteville, AR. We spilt A/B for this tournament, and again, had a really great weekend. The A team placed 3rd out of 20 teams. The B team didn’t bring home any wins, but it provided our younger players with a lot of playing time against other schools and we really benefited and improved with that opportunity. Our last tournament of the fall was Midwest Warmup in St. Louis, MO. We took one larger team to that tournament—just over 20 girls. On Saturday we went 2-2 with wins over WashU-B and Grinnell and losses to Wisconsin and Ohio State. On Sunday we went 3-1 with wins over Missouri St., SLU, and Penn St., and a loss to Colorado-Y. Our 5-3 record put us at 15th overall of 30 teams, a good finish to a fall season that encompassed a lot of learning and getting back to the fundamentals. With the winter break approaching, we are planning to practice as much as the weather allows while starting a winter training program. We’ll also be starting some fundraising to raise money for our spring travel. Once we have our spring travel tournanment schedule finalized, we will post it here. As always, if you have any questions or comments about ultimate, our University team, or other local Ultimate, contact us at bettyultimate@gmail.com [Sp09] [Fa08] |
